Superstrong, Telepathic – the Bionic Soldiers of the Future: How Radical Technology Could Transform British Troops within 30 Years

MailOnline, April 29, 2013 Posted here: Friday, May 3, 2013 @ 5:00pmEditor’s Note: This is exactly, almost word for word, what I’ve been warning people about in my Wes Penre Papers”! See for example,http://wespenre.com/3/paper09-machine-kingdom.htm. Reality
catches up with my writing faster than I could ever anticipate. No
wonder I felt this intuitive urge to complete the papers ASAP! Wes Penre.

Ministry of Defence report says ‘augmented’ soldiers could even have bodies that self-repair wounds

Warfare may be an awful thing, but it has a habit of accelerating health technology in ways that are helpful to everyone.

For example, in World War II the Allies made significant medical
advances in vital areas such as developing antibiotic drugs — which the
Germans didn’t possess — and performing lifesaving blood transfusions.

Now, however, the military is developing an alarming new interest in
the human body and brain. It wants to create armies of mutant soldiers,
equipped with unstoppable physical and mental powers.

Within 30 years, according to newly released Ministry of Defence
papers, British soldiers should be able to lift huge weights, run at
high speeds over extreme distances, have infra-red night vision built
into their brains, and even be capable of transmitting thoughts by
electronically aided telepathy.

And this is not just pie-in-the-sky planning. Science is now emerging that may make these army dreams real.

A recent Freedom of Information request revealed details of a two-day
future-gazing summit by the MoD’s obscure Development Concepts and
Doctrine Centre, where military spooks swapped ideas with experts from
universities, industry and government.

The summit concluded that by 2045, advances in medical technology
could create a class of genetically superior humans — rather like the
super-powered science fiction characters Wolverine, Storm and Rogue from
Marvel Comics.

Further details of the military boffins’ thinking are on the
internet, in an MoD report titled: Global Strategic Trends Out to 2040.
This predicts that advanced drug and genetic technologies will enable
armies to reprogram soldiers’ genes, in order to transform them into
daunting fighters.

High-tech implants in brains could also help to turn square-bashing
squaddies into super-intelligent man-machines. The defence ministry
forecasters have given the process a chilling clinical name: ‘human
augmentation’. They predict that these brain implants (called ‘cognitive
prostheses’) could give solders bionic vision and hearing, as well as
towering IQs and total recall.

The MoD report adds that such ‘augmented’ soldiers could even have
bodies that self-repair wounds, through the use of what it terms
‘regenerative medicine, tissue engineering and artificial immune
systems’.

It all sounds far too fantastic to be real. But, in fact, some of
these outlandish predictions are already turning out to be true.

Arms
race: In the future a British, currently limited in the amount of
equipment he can physically carry, could be given superstrength.

For example, America’s Lockheed Martin company is developing an
advanced robotic exoskeleton known as the Human Universal Load Carrier,
which will enable men to carry massive loads with minimal effort, either
on their front or their back.

The skeleton is ultralight, highly mobile and attached to the outside
of the body with its own titanium legs, which transfer the weight of
any load to the ground.

Microcomputers sense the soldier’s body movements and enable it to do
exactly what he does, whether it is running, lifting or even crawling.
Prototype versions are already entering combat trials in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, super-vision came considerably closer last year after
pioneering surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford restored
some sight to Tim Reddish, a Paralympic swimming champion in his 60s who
had been blind for 17 years.

The key to the operation’s success was a 3mm microchip with 1,500
light-sensitive cells implanted into each retina and connected by wire
to a power unit implanted behind his ear.

When light enters the eye and hits the chips, it stimulates
light-sensitive cells which send signals to the brain, enabling him to
see.

Military experts see huge potential. Experiments in the U.S. have
shown that implant technology could also give normally sighted soldiers
amazing extra senses, such as night vision, and even the ability to see
magnetic fields.

Science
fiction: What seems like science fiction today could soon become a
battlefield reality if technology being worked on by Ministry of Defence
boffins sees the light of day.

The breakthrough has been made by Dr Miguel Nicolelis, a
neurobiologist at Duke University in North Carolina, who announced
earlier this year that he had given rats the ability to detect infra-red
light, normally invisible to them, by fitting them with an infra-red
detector wired to microscopic electrodes in their brains.

The military are interested in super-blood, too. Surgeons and
emergency doctors have long hoped for the advent of artificial blood
that can safely be stored for months or years, and be given to any
patient.

Now that possibility is nearing reality, thanks to the work of
British teams such as those at the University of Sheffield. Chemists
there have created a ‘plastic blood’ that mimics red blood cells and can
be successfully donated to over 98 per cent of patients.

Military scientists are predicting a wealth of potential
breakthroughs in human capability that could be created by advanced
future versions of artificial blood.

For example, nanotechnology could fill them with synthetic platelets,
the naturally occurring cell fragments vital for clotting, enabling
wounds to heal faster.

Artificial blood could also be adapted to increase its power to carry
oxygen and nutrients round the body, thus boosting muscle and brain
power.

But artificial blood would not be the only way to muscle power. Back
in 2004, Lee Sweeney, a geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania,
showed it was possible to create genetically modified mice that produced
a natural stimulant in their muscles called ‘insulin-like growth
factor’.

Some
of the finest minds are working away on military technology which could
transform the British soldier into bionic superhumans, according to
newly released documents.

Mice with such enhanced genes had more than 30 per cent stronger
muscles, enabling them to run for much faster and longer than normal.

Dr Sweeney’s mice were modified as embryos. Since then, genetics
researchers have been working on ways to boost muscles in adults.

In 2008, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania created GM mice
that could run six times further than normal without suffering from
exhaustion, by altering a gene called interleukin-15R alpha, which
shifts how energy is used in the ‘fast-twitch’ muscle fibres that
provide sprinting ability.
Such breakthroughs promise to create armies that appear unbeatable.

The Pentagon is now working on manipulating human brainwaves to optimise performance.
American military chiefs are seeking a technology system that would
synchronise gamma waves (which facilitate memory creation) and theta
waves (for turning short-term memories into lasting ones), so they work
together in the best way. This would boost the ability of soldiers to
retain lots of information in high-stress situations, for longer.

Telepathy is being considered as well — and already a machine has
been developed in Dr Nicolelis’s laboratory to make it happen,
facilitating telepathic communication over distances of thousands of
miles, though so far only for rats.

The implications for the military are extraordinary. If commanders
could simply pass on their thoughts to their troops without the need for
radios, it would confer a huge tactical advantage.

Given the extraordinary pace of technological development, one thing
is certain — the toughest man in the Armed Forces could soon be the one
with a silicon chip on his shoulder.

Sheeple

The Black Sheep tries to warn its friends with the truth it has seen, unfortunately herd mentality kicks in for the Sheeple, and they run in fear from the black sheep and keep to the safety of their flock.

Having tried to no avail to awaken his peers, the Black Sheep have no other choice but to unite with each other and escape the impending doom.

What color Sheep are you?

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